1y ago

Father of Marine killed in 2021 suicide bomb attack at Afghanistan's Kabul airport arrested at SOTU

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During Biden's speech, Nikoui could be heard yelling, "Abbey Gate, Abbey Gate" at approximately 10:15 p.m. ET. Abbey Gate is the entrance to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, where a single explosive device was detonated by an ISIS-K terrorist. The blast killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 170 Afghans.

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I dont understand what his protest was for. I'm sure there is extreme emotional duress from losing a child that recently, but what was the goal or message here?
- Make Biden look bad.
  
  Made himself look like a fool who cares more about politics than the death of his son to me.
  I'd give him a break due to his grieving, but honestly, it's pathetic that he would let his love for his son be manipulated for political points.
  He was literally trying to use his son's death to help the man who gave the orders that got his son killed.
  
  Guess he's a Russian now too.
- Biden bungled the evacuation of Afghanistan leading to deaths.
  
  Biden wasn't involved in the Afghanistan pullout, actually. That was definitively Trump.
  They let Mods use mod profiles to spread misinformation in this sub?
  Wow.
  Edit:
  Moving the relevant bits from Wikipedia above the debate so people will have a frame of reference.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_U.S._troop_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan
  The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war. In February 2020, the Trump administration and the Taliban signed the United States–Taliban deal in Doha, Qatar,[7] which stipulated fighting restrictions for both the US and the Taliban, and provided for the withdrawal of all NATO forces from Afghanistan in return for the Taliban's counter-terrorism commitments. The deal, and then the Biden administration's final decision in April 2021 to pull out all US troops by September 2021 without leaving a residual force, were the two critical events that triggered the start of the collapse of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).[8
The father of a U.S. Marine who was killed at Afghanistan's Kabul airport in 2021 as America pulled out of the country was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police officers for disrupting the State of the Union address
Meanwhile, Marjorie Taylor Greene gets a pass...

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